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Brooke Africa coming up off that
these latest world news headlines.

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I'm Victor Beatty reporting marking his
first one hundred days in office South

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Korean president Thursday vowed to prevent
war with North Korea at all cost he said

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dialogue is possible of Pyongyang to halt
its nuclear and missile testing concern

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over the world threat of progress in
developing a nuclear tipped intercut

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a ballistic missile has
heightened global tensions in

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a tweet Wednesday President Donald Trump
said North Korean leader Kim Jong had made

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a wise decision to postpone a plan
to launch missiles toward the U.S.

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Pacific island territory of Guam vice
president Mike Pence visiting Chile was asked

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about that we welcome the statements of
the camera Sheen this week with regard to

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Guam but our objective is clear it is

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a nuclear free Korean peninsula and we want
the regime in Pyongyang to permanently

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abandon its nuclear and ballistic missile
programs and ambitions and will continue

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to bring pressure to bear to
reach that goal Meanwhile U.S.

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Spokesperson Heather now or called again
on the north to hold its destabilizing

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activities a good point would
be a good show. Of Faith

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a good show of goodwill would be to
stop nuclear nuclear testing to stop

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a list of missile testing to stop the state
to stop destabilizing activities and

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the region that would be a
good starting point U.N.

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Secretary general and Tony
good terrorists has urged

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a dialing down of the rhetoric and

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a doubling up of diplomacy he offered
his offices for such an effort. A UN N.

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Korea concluded that two UN investigators
were likely murdered by Congolese likely

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militia members in central Democratic
Republic of Congo it did not rule out the

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possibility others may have been involved
American Michael Sharp and swede cut

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along were killed March twelve Their bodies
found in shallow graves two weeks later

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this is V.O.A. News as
Sierra Leone Wednesday began

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a week of national mourning for hundreds
who died in massive mudslides this week

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the grim task of burying the dead began in
one of Africa's worst flood disasters to

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forestall the threat or the threat of
disease burials of hundreds of bodies began

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in and around the capital Freetown. Mahdi's
family was tragically impacted I have

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really steamed space and I don't let
the staff with that sixty day of

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a husband or died I've never seen sorting
through metal life before the country of

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six million I just emerged
from the effects of the

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a bold outbreak president orders by Koroma
went on national television to express

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his condolences to the families of the
victims I am very distraught but this is not

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you know tragedy I would not have you
have let me extend the group. To the

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families hundreds are still missing and
feared dead thousands have been made

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homeless in Venezuela nearly forty
armed inmates were killed during

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a raid by security forces to regain
control of the Southern prison reports

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indicated that many prisoners believed to
have been in control of the jail resisted

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government efforts meanwhile UN secretary
general and Tony good terrorist Wednesday

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called on the government in opposition to
restart negotiations to end that South

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American countries long political social
and economic crisis because I believe that

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only solution is

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a political solution based on those
negotiations than his will and authorities on

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Wednesday announced they are seeking
to arrest the husband of ousted chief

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prosecutor Luis Ortega on
allegations of running

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a multimillion dollar
extortion ring or take

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a traditional ally of socialist. President
it was Madeira broke with the government

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Today poll over the policies that it's
pursuing in Chile Wednesday Vice President

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Mike Pence spoke of the tragedy of tyranny
in his words unfolding in Venezuela the

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once free people of Venezuela are being
forced to endure that fade by the brutality

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of the middle row regime Venezuela's
sliding into dictatorship and as President

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Trump has said the United States will
not stand by as Venezuela crumbles and

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supported Chile signing along with eleven
other countries of the Lima declaration

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standing with the Venezuelan people and
standing up to what he called their

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oppressors Iraq's foreign
minister has asked the U.N.

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For international help in gathering
evidence against Islamic state for possible

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charges of crimes against humanity Foreign
Minister Ibrahim Al Jaafari said Britain

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is working with Iraq on

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a Security Council resolution Saudi Arabia
said it will welcome Qatari pilgrims to

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perform the hodge despite ongoing diplomatic
dispute with got her over its alleged

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support of terrorism the Sabah border
crossing has been reopened U.S.

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Central bank policy makers appear hesitant
to further increase the key interest

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rate amid signs we can place in minutes
from the last month's Federal Reserve

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meeting indicate they're also going to cut
the bank's Mazza portfolio of Treasury

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bonds I'm Victor beat and that's
the latest world news from oh hey.

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Good morning everyone welcome to DAYBREAK
Africa from the Voice of America I'm

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James but in Washington today is Thursday
August seventeenth and here are some of

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this the reason we're covering. Mass
funerals today for some of the victims of

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Monday's must. Continues for the missing.

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Morning that we have drawn them in.

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One on forty. From the wreckage of. A

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spokesman for President Ernest Bai Koroma
Nigeria's demand their president return

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home to resume work all resigned the
number of candidates in today's Liberia

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presidential election debate is less two
and Zambia's me opposition party there was

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no quid pro quo yesterday released
from prison of his leader.

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But.

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Spokesman for Zambians me opposition
party and some newly arriving African

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immigrants in Italy get training
at beekeepers those there was also

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a listen of the day are
coming up on DAYBREAK Africa.

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The government will today Thursday carry
out mass burials full of some of the

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victims of Monday's must lie as the search
continues for the estimated six hundred

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more still believed to be missing there
it is spokesman for President Ernest Bai

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Koroma says over three hundred bodies have
been recovered so far he says President

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will attend. Paris which will take place
near the city of Waterloo about twenty

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miles east of the capital Freetown seen
yesterday morning we have been receiving

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families that the men cannot speak
of much worry after we put out

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a statement that we wanted them to identify
their loved one so that if they wanted

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bodies. On the our own we can give
them that opportunity apparently

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some came to identify their loved
ones they prayed with them gave them

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a last respect and eventually the and they
drove across the game to the government

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that this was the government that they
took him to be around that was going to

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happen later today so as I'm speaking to
you now although mortalities are being put

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in place will be taken this cop safe.
Told this morning the latest to go we

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have from the man cannot speak to ace three
hundred and thirty one bodies that we

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have recovered from wreckage of
the disaster and events talented

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a president of cause it will be in water
which is about twenty miles away from

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three thousand and bosses have also been
provided for debris families and all that

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when we should particularly
when we have also instituted

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a seven days national mourning so

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a lot of people are going to sympathize
with what is generally believed to be

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a national tragedy Mr Barrett in
the wake of today's mass barrier.

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An indication mount that the search and
rescue is over because one account I'm

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reading is that as many as maybe six
hundred to nine hundred people might be

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accounted for well it is for the very reason
that you rightly said that we are not

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acquainted or can. Catch them
arrest. So this morning as we are

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preparing for the barrier we can still see
Ambulante toward the mortuary green to

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mean party so this is where we have to
continue in the rescue operation and we have

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a very optimistic that down the road we
might be able to look at life because the

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good news stories of the so five hours
we have in our videos hospitals that are

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very indications that. Via
valleys ninety percent how close

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is your government about
the possibility of

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a disease outbreak because this is minute
season we have very much concern we have

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activated a level three
security apparatus which is

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a military aid to the whole community we
have also walked in with many soft health

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and sanitation I mean one of the
people as well as published as part of

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a quality need to respond we have to water
had and sanitation and hygiene people

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which is very key and as I'm speaking
to you now we have gone to the affected

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communities just to make sure that preventive
measures are being put in place. At

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the liabilities

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a spokesman for civil and President Ernest
Bai Koroma speaking with me from the

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capital Freetown Nigerian president Mohammad
duble Hariri has be in London since

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May this year seeking treatment full and
on specified ailment last week you know

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that he is ready to return home but
Nigerians are growing impatient an online

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campaign resume all resign is gaining
traction across the country CICA old well

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reports of us from. This
year President Mohamed

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a Bihari has spent more time outside of
Nigeria than in the country who are you

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return from London in March after being
away for nearly two months treating an

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undisclosed illness he left again on May
seventh during both of his absences Bihari

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has followed the Constitution temporarily
passing executive power to his vice

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president citizen say it is time
for the Nigerian president to make

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a decision either get back to work or
step down the president. Was right it

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was up this street rally on Tuesday is one
of several that have been conducted in

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the capital of Abuja over the past week
participants carried banners with bold

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words printed resume or resign the slogan
stems from the hash tag campaign that

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started online earlier this month and
quickly spread in Lagos and there have also

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been street demonstrations on Tuesday in
the resume resigned activists entered an

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open market and came face to face with
the market traders many of whom are avid

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supporters of President Bihari was

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the sable Hari Sable Hari the pro-ball

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Hari supporters began chanting it
means only Bihari in the local house

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a language. Each VO way so pro Biharis
supporters began beating the resume or

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resigned activist local newspaper reporter
diary Richards said he had to seek

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medical treatment after the
Tuesday rally. Nigerians are

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divided over the issue but the calls for
resignation are getting louder Hillary

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many and as a president is just

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a virus to the country as well because he
is someone sick for the first time on his

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P.C.

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He should be allowed to call then come back
on can see new being praised things and

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we love him. It is only in this country
it bridges that and would like to rule on

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it are welcome to like this from another
country I mean it is but we have minimal

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what is going on without for him to resign
and faces heads as round of our power to

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his vice. Devise with the baton V.P.

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Yemi ocean by Joe has been an active acting
president he has carried out the daily

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duties of state and he has been pushing
an economic agenda to attract foreign

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investors in hopes of lifting Africa's
most populous nation out of its recession

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last week Bihari announced that he is ready
to return from London and is waiting

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for his doctor's approval though the
Nigerian people remain in the dark about the

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president's exact state of health his
advisers and the first lady say he is

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recovering and doing fine but there is
much doubt Nigeria's Constitution requires

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a two thirds vote of the president's
cabinet as well as confirmation by medical

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panel that the president is quote incapable
of discharging the functions of his

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office end quote before he could
be removed what do we want. They

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say they'll continue protesting in the
streets until the president returns to

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Nigeria Chico dua for V.O.A.

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News. Here listening to daybreak Africa
and the Voice of America and James but in

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Washington today is Thursday August seventeenth
DAYBREAK Africa time forty minutes

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past the hour organizers of today's six
candidates debate in Liberia's October

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tenth presidential election said the number
of participants has been reduced by two

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the debate is expected to focus on six
issues of concern to the Liberian people

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including the economy security and
rule of law peace and reconciliation

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anti-corruption policy agriculture and you
for empowerment the public is to make

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the kind of does this cause issues rather
than personalities let me go oh is

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a member of the deepening democracy coalition
the group that is organizing today's

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presidential debate he says the two
candidates who will not be participating in

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today's debate Senator George Weah of the
Coalition for Democratic Change and from

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a national bank governor Jay Mills who
is the presidential candidate of the

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movement for economic
empowerment party. Yesterday.

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Disability Mr Joyce we are anticipating.
That he will not be patented by The

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Who can participate in.
This misuses all. Contact.

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In

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a little part of the country and. What is
the reason for Senator we are not wanting

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to participate or

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a condo while he is campaigning. To
leave us with the letter and we send

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our invitation to. People of his
area yesterday that we would

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have never seen him. Here are you planning
on having another presidential debate

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well or will an election will
be only. For this one and

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only. Generally. In these wars.

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You said that the vice president Mr Black-Eyed
and the rest of the other people are

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going to participate that. He will. Be

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a politician. Or to be I would not likely
is this is first time that such a D.

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Bit

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a presidential candidate is going to be taken
place for this election I still. Believe

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. In what I mean historically Army has
there be any presidential debate our

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historic presidential. Father will be
able to get in this debate as he has his

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history will. Have Been
will be. Very interesting.

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Mr Taylor will eventually want participate
in or. Participate in the way

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the major wars. The. Kinship
of evaluation particularly

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these along. Let me go as

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a member of the deepening democracy coalition
the group that is organizing first

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this presidential debate in Liberia
speaking with me from the capital Monrovia

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Zambia's main opposition party the united
party for national development you P.N.D.

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Says there was no quid pro quo yesterday's
release from prison of this leader haka

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in the his dilemma he had been charged
with treason for failing to make way for

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president. Motorcade there were rumors that
the government was planted to drop the

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charges if Mr Hayes dillema would recognize
President as their legitimate president

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but on Wednesday the Director of Public
Prosecutions dropped the charges without

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giving a reason. Spokesman for
the opposition you P.N.D.

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Party says Mr He told him I will hold

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a news conference in the
next few days to address

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a number of issues in. Today whether to
recognize dilute the government on and were

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happy large a particular event
have been relieved and today was

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a great day for our party people have
been celebrating dancing and some of them

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crying to joy and so on from the high
caught up to the prison facility

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what has

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a name to the president's
house. So I ask you the other

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day yesterday or so why was
he released was there and

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a deal made for him to be released was
very unsettled prevented him called to

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a director probably
perfect solutions cited

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a provision in the question that. She had

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power to be in

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a case giving rebels no reasons and some
of the nation was under that. Citing that

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she could be. An absolute zero
power or indeed due to Maui

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administration of public interest
and those of any other. State

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ever the three Mr had to limit this speak
to his supporters and I understand that

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he thinks that now is the time than be to
move forward what does that mean can he

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be interpreted to me that tell he's
willing to work with the government well

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everybody was following them and positive
Can you see that what I reckon today is

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just one step towards the breeding
of democracy in the kind of lives

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that was mostly only important event in
the. Politics what is needed now to push

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their agenda forward to again reclaim
Sunday as democracy people have lost him

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arrive. And now we're back to

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a stage where we're almost
going to. Dictatorships. To be

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a pain they've been to stop
dictatorship happening to regaining

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freedoms and rights as
an assistant but Ms talk

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a coma how does the European D help
Zambia Regi is democracy when your

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leader refused to recognize the election
of the president through democratic means

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. Other than have done things
now we're going through

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a process of dialogue and that person that
enclose the issues of the election and

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their issues or. Somebody or ever crams
the one so that. Thing must be put on

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the table they have discussed. Well I
backed concrete solution so the process of

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dialogue but us saying that Mr hit

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a limit did not promise to recognize the
president as they precondition for his

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release Were you don't know about any
promise you have not told us anything even

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before you came out in order to not tell
us anything if there were any K.-Mart did

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not talk about any promise so alone are
there issues or would go regime as to

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a matter of speculation Minix today
very mistake promised to order

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a press conference where issues will recall
an issue and and other issues including

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the presidential guard issue I want to
be. A spokesman for is on the AS ME

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opposition you P.N.D.

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Party speaking with me from the capital
Lusaka A spokesman says the Zambian

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president. Did not is says that of
additional legal haka individual him should

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recognize his government as a
precondition for Mr Hitchens

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a must release from prison yesterday
but most Chanda says it is

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a requirement for the main opposition
candidate to acknowledge the outcome of the

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trying to sixty election without exception
still Chunda says the decision to drop

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the charges against Mr was pure. To choice
of the Director of Public Prosecutions

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as mandated in

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a zombie in the Constitution. That equal
public prosecution should win in the

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criminal cases before court
power is remembered can detect

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a Public Prosecution of when the mother
comes up for trial to continue with the

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communiqué in these cases is that it
probably prosecution exercise that power

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decided to discontinue the tape how can
that be justified when Mr had to limit

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spent three or still months in jail and
then the public prosecutor decided to drop

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the charges this indication that people
see your government did not have any

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evidence to continue prosecuting Mr
chilly mom to Kenya to discontinue

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a criminal case when my office actually
said he's furious freezes over debt except

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for the prosecution a member of M.G.M.

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Books she is also planning to explain how
and why she reached out to see just what

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good boss even the events of the past two
weeks have minded dignitaries that came

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to them and decided to visit the police
and neither one of them. Potentially

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scopolamine the secretary general to come
on or he said if possible to leave in

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sixteen election than before to lead

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a ship to dial the police evolution of the
forms of difference and the hope of use

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when this is

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a gimmick where willing practice time
in process of support for the P.C.C.

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In the action when the secretary general
she wanted to ensure that the dialogue and

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that. The who comes from

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a room to make plans for the thing that
golden rule then I am conducting Michonne

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won't be on the table for will crack should
that be the agenda of the provision the

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president does not problem with unit
tests so there was no way. Pro Corps is

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themselves what they release from

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a study to limit and then he recognized
the election of President the President

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does not insist on the stage the medical
deny anything and that's neither here nor

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there is normal to compare with somebody
may carry commission back if you require

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them and that their position they know is
out of forensics team election which has

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been dosed by the mention of it should not
be reversed at all without exception so

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the president could of course that view
that what the that the center of the

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sterile concrete bad blood between the
pollution the ruling party was the posturing

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of their opposition that they do not mind
the outcome of the elections and from

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their phone the district led them to do
certain things that then the problems

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of the police or the prison service I can
point to what is problem before they

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acknowledge that some reductions in most
Chanda spokesman for family and president

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got longer who were speaking with me from
the capital Lusaka the Italian group come

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a large association saw

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a need for more beekeepers in northern Italy
and decided to train African migrants

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and other refugees arriving in the country
to fill those positions Mara Alec was

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president of the Association talked to
Ricky Shryock about the migrants who have

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gotten jobs and the challenges that the
project. We we were trying to find

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a solution that work that could be effective
to really push through to integrate

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into our society find a job or and find

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a place to leave the SO we found in beekeeping
or it would put to eighty to achieve

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the city's. How many people have been trained
so far and how do the migrants react

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to the training a lot of these
countries are coming from don't have

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a culture of beekeeping so far in the three
years in Korea we have trained sixty

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five my grandson and the first tee
and we have activated foot to foot

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a training training ship or into we
keeping companies there my guns that have

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access to the project or the guys from or

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a little bit. From Africa but also
from like Gandhi some pockets

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some Bhangra wish and they really
like the project or they are

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a bit involved. In the profession and
training day doing the classes because the

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class is given in an intensive way
speeds three three weeks one mountain

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of back because inter because.
That is about lessons

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about beekeeping are and also organic
agriculture and they are admitting will do

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because they know that after the
training programme programme the. Good

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opportunities through to getting fit.
In the labor market straight away after

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training

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a senior How many people that have gone
through the training have full time job in

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the beekeeping industry now we have activated
the foot deferred training ship and

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this training ship different
in duration from three MT sir.

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Asked to fill so far because
this project is quite

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a new project we can say
so far five people. Give

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a job they have many said in the companies
and they work full time or the other

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are doing things fulltime us about of
different duration the ones who have

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a six seven eight month durations

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a good salary Yes So they're saying she
received six hundred Europe that amount to

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defective. Keeping said third and as
well come the Project for the last

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of the keeper company they
supported the project X.

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Italy. Briefly before leaving summary of
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today Thursday carry out mass burials for
some of the victims of Monday's must lie

00:28:57
as the Such continues for the estimated
six hundred or more still missing that is

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it for this Thursday August seventy edition
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for reporters Peter Clottey and Ricky

00:29:11
strike as well as force editors some
say Oh Molly along with Cook I am

00:29:16
a gentle parting Washington
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00:29:19
a good day. Interested in
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00:30:03
Hello there today is Thursday August
seventeenth and this is video ways

00:30:07
international edition I'm Lori
London in Washington coming up

00:30:12
a community remembers a young
woman killed over the weekend in

00:30:15
a racially charged rally say to
yourself What can I do you to make

00:30:20
a difference and that is how you're going
to make my child's death worthwhile the

00:30:25
U.S.

00:30:25
In turmoil over race relations as outrage
continues over President Trump statements

00:30:31
millions of Americans
are preparing to watch

00:30:33
a rare total eclipse Also ahead remembering
the king of rock N roll Elvis Presley

00:30:39
it's all in today's international edition.

00:30:57
Huge crowd carrying candles and singing
filled the streets of downtown

00:31:02
Charlottesville Virginia
Wednesday night for

00:31:05
a vigil for thirty two year old
Heather hire a woman killed when

00:31:09
a Nazi sympathizer allegedly ran her down
with his car last Saturday fire was one

00:31:16
of hundreds of counter
protesters marching against

00:31:19
a white supremacist rally in the southern
college town friends family and mourners

00:31:24
gathered early Wednesday for

00:31:26
a memorial service for hire her
mother Susan Breaux struck

00:31:30
a defiant tone telling the crowd her
daughter's death would only serve to amplify

00:31:35
her message. And I think the reason that
what happened to have their has struck

00:31:40
a chord is because we know that what
she did is achievable we don't all

00:31:47
have to die we don't all have to sacrifice
our lives they tried to kill my child to

00:31:53
shut her up well guess what
you just magnified or.

00:31:59
Thank God there's father also
spoke. I came here today and I

00:32:06
was overwhelmed. Overwhelmed.

00:32:13
At the rainbow of colors in this room.
That's how Heather was. It didn't

00:32:20
matter who you where or where you were from
but she loved you that was it you were

00:32:25
stuck. So. For that.

00:32:32
I'm truly proud of my daughter. Also in
attendance Senator Tim Kaine he referred to

00:32:38
Virginia's troubled history with race
relations as he addressed reporters bridging

00:32:43
is

00:32:43
a place for scar tissue folks we've experienced
hatred we've experienced division and

00:32:49
we've experienced the racism that is
sad but the undeniable part of our

00:32:56
history but what we've come
a long way. We've come

00:33:00
a long way under unlikely
leadership we've come

00:33:02
a long way fighting back the divisions and
bigotries of past errors can also serve

00:33:09
who's also served as governor so the
Commonwealth of Virginia and the town of

00:33:12
Charlottesville have put away the evils
of the past and there are people who want

00:33:17
to bring us back to it many of them who are
not even from the Commonwealth but they

00:33:22
want to call us backward but what
Heather's life shows what this community

00:33:29
shows what Virginia shows is we're not
going back we will not go back to days of

00:33:34
hatred and bigotry and division
we're not going back and

00:33:38
a matter who tries to take us back on

00:33:40
a matter WHO emboldens those who would
try to take us back we are not going

00:33:44
backwards. He also criticized the
leadership of President Donald Trump saying

00:33:49
bigots have been emboldened by the
president's next messages on the tragedy the

00:33:54
president from continues to face

00:33:55
a barrage of criticism for his contention
that both white supremacists and counter

00:34:00
protesters were to blame for the deadly
violence Wednesday the president announced

00:34:05
that he dissolved two business advisory
committees composed of top American

00:34:09
corporate executives after at least seven
C.E.O.'s announced they were resigning

00:34:13
from the councils because of his remarks
as the violence unfolded last Saturday

00:34:18
Trump initially blamed it on many sides but
Monday he condemned the neo nazis white

00:34:24
supremacist and racist Ku Klux Klan for
their role in the on rest then on Tuesday

00:34:29
at

00:34:29
a news conference at his Trump Tower in New
York Trump reverted to his initial assessment

00:34:34
. The violence that killed one woman and
wounded nineteen others and joining me now

00:34:39
to discuss is to Hamal Lopez bin Yasi
assistant professor of conflict and

00:34:43
resolution at George Mason
University in the U.S.

00:34:46
State of Virginia so thank you for being
with us are you surprised at the rise in

00:34:51
white supremacist rallies taking place
here in this country I'm not surprised all

00:34:55
kinds of white supremacist call the white
nationalist neo nazis but the dominant

00:35:02
ideology here that binds them together is
that idea that white people are superior

00:35:07
either biologically culturally somehow
more deserving natural leaders whatever it

00:35:13
is and that you know they are the people
who should be in charge and these groups

00:35:18
have been around for centuries some of
them maybe this past century the neo nazis

00:35:24
certainly after World War two But just you
know really been since the civil rights

00:35:29
movement that they've taken mostly to the
shadows and in the past I'd say fifteen

00:35:36
plus years they've really exploded on the
internet so where you may not see the

00:35:42
type of congregations publicly of groups
like the Klan for example and they've had

00:35:48
their protests but they can congregate
online and they can grow online presence

00:35:52
from held

00:35:53
a news conference like none I've ever seen
apparently is AIDS didn't know he was

00:35:57
going to take questions can you give me
some perspective on what you make of all of

00:36:01
that the comments that he that he made you
know it is very hard to make sense of

00:36:06
many things that he says I mean he is truly
right off the cuff surprises I seems

00:36:12
like everyone who's around
him all together he's always

00:36:15
a trump the premises that he's he thinks
he is the best thing since sliced bread

00:36:21
and within you know that trump
supremacy he doesn't have

00:36:24
a challenge against you know
white supremacy doesn't have

00:36:27
a challenge against sexism are able
to is and he's he's the possessor of

00:36:32
a great privilege and. He is not the
defender of any kind of minority in this

00:36:37
country the president did say he believed
that there was less racism since he's

00:36:43
taken office in this country it doesn't
seem to match some of the statistics of

00:36:47
some of the watchdog groups that have been
doing some analysis on the pool I was

00:36:51
taking a look at F.B.I.

00:36:53
Statistics and the numbers for like single
biased incidents have seem to kind of

00:36:58
ANY SENSE find in some cases they've
declined since twenty tends like year seven

00:37:02
thousand to like five thousand eight hundred
twenty fifteen that's the most recent

00:37:07
full reports but we know maybe an unofficial
capacity that there have been all

00:37:12
kinds of incidents in twenty sixteen and
you know into the years of the campaign

00:37:16
election and what's notable I think and
what's important is that we've seen

00:37:22
a slight decrease in the kinds of anti-black
hate crimes you know the two lower

00:37:29
sixty percent to below fifty percent which
means that there are there are more

00:37:33
incidents against people of you know let's
you know dissent people who you know

00:37:38
would be categorized as Asian descent but
mainly the talking about you know people

00:37:41
who might be read as Arab or Muslim so
the kinds of hate is probably being more

00:37:48
widely dispersed but always with the most
against blacks it's interesting because

00:37:53
you know the president of the United
States also you know he has of

00:37:55
a daughter that's Jewish

00:37:56
a son in law that's Jewish and yet he
seemed to indicate in his press conference

00:38:00
that the reason he didn't come out
stronger and same more during his first

00:38:05
statement was that he didn't have all the
facts but there were clearly swastikas

00:38:10
being held and people chanting anti Semitic
comments and I think what's plain and

00:38:16
simple too I think most decent people who
believe in equality they recognize those

00:38:22
things as you know malicious and I don't
think he does but actually since he's been

00:38:28
you know the proponent really you know of
the birth the risen against Obama he he

00:38:34
doesn't. Not care at all about what these
comments that he says about Muslims about

00:38:38
immigrants from generally about Mexicans
he's not concerned I mean he had such

00:38:43
a gut reaction to the most ridiculous
things like you know bad now thing somebody

00:38:47
like you know an actress or something quite
like Meryl Streep but he doesn't have

00:38:52
a great reaction to what you write
supremacy. Do you think this is always been

00:38:57
brewing in our country the white supremacy
but that they're somehow feeling

00:39:02
emboldened from coming out or do you think
that they're recruiting more people

00:39:05
white supremacy has been as an ideology has
been I say alive and well just depends

00:39:11
on you know how public it's been but you
know for most of our for most of our

00:39:14
history it wasn't even like

00:39:17
a question about whether or not white people
were better that really does come into

00:39:20
question with the civil rights movement

00:39:22
a little bit beforehand but I think I
think what's happening is like you know

00:39:26
you're seeing

00:39:27
a big split and we've seen this the United
States you know along partisan lines is

00:39:31
that you have probably more aggressive and
more successful recruiting strategies

00:39:36
for this now we're calling it the all right
but you know white supremacist faction

00:39:41
but we're also seeing I think what's
interesting is more and more white people who

00:39:47
are who are you know publicly protesting
against these groups and who are you

00:39:53
know in some way trying to become supporters
of black lives matter and in support

00:39:59
of immigration reform and so I think it's
an interesting time to study whiteness

00:40:04
because there's like this cleavage
that's occurring along I lines of racial

00:40:08
ideology do you believe in white supremacy
and think that this is the way that you

00:40:12
know the United States should continue
to be because this is what we've been

00:40:15
fighting against for several decades
and we're going through some really

00:40:19
interesting growing pains in this country
and the sad part about that is that the

00:40:23
people who are taking up the opposite side
there seem to be very little place for

00:40:29
discourse and I'm afraid that when you lose
space for discourse that you give. Hali

00:40:34
a disproportionate amount of space to the
possibility of people OK parents against

00:40:38
each other I don't want to see that in my
country. While I don't think any of us do

00:40:43
to him alone has been Yasi assistant
professor of Conflict Resolution at George

00:40:48
Mason University thank you for your your
time turning now to what's trending on

00:40:52
social media we're joined by Andrew pal
cesky handrail what's going on well we have

00:40:57
two follow ups to stories that we've talked
about in the past couple days OK first

00:41:01
as

00:41:01
a follow up to President Obama's tweet he
tweeted out about the protests going on in

00:41:06
Charlottesville we said that tweet was
rapidly becoming one of the most popular

00:41:11
tweets ever well now it is the
most liked tweet ever why

00:41:18
passed the tweet by Ariana Grande day the
singer sent out after the attack outside

00:41:23
her concert in Manchester in the U.K.

00:41:26
Ariana Grande ace tweet had two point seven
million likes President Obama's tweet

00:41:31
surpassed that and not only to surpass
that kept going it's nearing four million

00:41:36
likes so out of people rallying around
this on social media it's become kind of

00:41:41
a way for people to express their opposition
and Horenstein to the white supremacy

00:41:48
the neo nazis and it's going on in
Charlottesville so this is really gone viral in

00:41:53
the biggest way as

00:41:54
a way of people to really express this
and express frustration and anger and

00:41:59
sadness by endorsing liking and retreating
this tweet meant and that tweet by the

00:42:05
way

00:42:05
a quote from Nelson Mandela Yes the quote
is no one is born hating another person

00:42:10
because of the color of their skin or his
background or his religion and actually

00:42:15
that's one of three tweets that the
president former president sent out he

00:42:19
continued that quote on it goes on for

00:42:21
a little longer and each of the
subsequent tweets have over

00:42:24
a million likes and over three hundred
fifty thousand retreats for each of them

00:42:29
anything else happening
yet another follow up to

00:42:31
a story that we talked about which was the
dock. Singh as they call it it's when

00:42:36
people can find your information online and
release it publicly so we talked about

00:42:40
how white supremacists were being docs to
having their information released after

00:42:44
those rallies in Charlottesville when they
were identified in those photos Well now

00:42:47
social media companies are actually stepping
up and they're helping to fight white

00:42:52
supremacy and racism and all of these ugly
things online but they're doing it in

00:42:57
a bit of

00:42:57
a more structured way than people docs
ing in releasing information and social

00:43:01
media companies like Facebook and Reddit
have both announced that they're removing

00:43:05
neo nazi and white supremacists content
they're removing links to content that is

00:43:09
racist from their sites so they're taking

00:43:12
a big step up to remove hate speech of
course this is something we've talked about

00:43:15
more in

00:43:16
a context of people trying to use social
media to recruit or get other people to

00:43:22
involve themselves in terrorism overseas
this is an instance where they're

00:43:26
confronting hate speech here in the United
States and it's interesting not just

00:43:31
with the timing of what happened in
Charlottesville but a new report from

00:43:35
a professor at Virginia Tech saying that
online rhetoric particularly on social

00:43:39
media is actually contributing to the rise
of hate groups and violence in real life

00:43:45
so perhaps stopping that at the source
with social media will stop it from

00:43:49
spreading stop these groups from rallying
and getting together this is something I

00:43:53
actually talked about in my digital daily
video series so for listeners want to

00:43:56
check that out and learn more about this
they can find that at Twitter dot com

00:44:00
slash hashtag V.O.A. Or Facebook
dot com slash hashtag V.O.A.

00:44:04
All right Andrew thank you you
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00:44:22
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00:44:28
survivors in Sierra Leone months lied they
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00:44:34
life in prison for twenty
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00:44:36
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00:44:42
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international edition. President

00:45:03
Donald Trump says North Korean
leader Kim Jong un made

00:45:06
a very wise and well reasoned
decision to postpone

00:45:10
a planned launch and plan to launch
missiles toward the shores of the U.S.

00:45:14
Territory of Guam ice president
Mike Pence one giving

00:45:18
a joint statement with the president
of Chile they called on Chile and

00:45:22
a number of other Latin American countries
to break all diplomatic and commercial

00:45:25
ties with North Korea we truly believe
that it's imperative that the regime in

00:45:32
Pyongyang understand that all options are
on the take the United States of America

00:45:37
will simply not permit

00:45:39
a rogue regime in North Korea to possess
usable nuclear weapons that can reach the

00:45:45
continental United States and threaten
our people. And while North Korea has no

00:45:50
diplomatic offices or banking institutions
in should lead the two countries do

00:45:54
share a trading relationship
pence reiterated that the U.S.

00:45:58
Will do whatever it takes to prevent
North Korea from achieving achieving its

00:46:01
nuclear goals we welcome the statements
of the camera Sheen this week with regard

00:46:07
to go on but our objective is clear it is

00:46:09
a nuclear free Korean peninsula and we want
the regime in Pyongyang to permanently

00:46:15
a van and its nuclear and ballistic
missile programs and ambitions and will

00:46:20
continue to bring pressure to bear to
Ricci's that go to China North Korea's

00:46:25
economic lifeline and its own only major
ally is telling John Young and Washington

00:46:30
that both should quote hit the brakes on
the bellicose threats they may have or

00:46:36
they have made against each other in
recent days and weeks it was saying to the

00:46:41
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First. To come on our joy. Not only son I.

00:47:24
Feel his international edition continues
the sun moon and earth will line up

00:47:29
perfectly in the cosmos on August
twenty first turning day into night for

00:47:34
a few wondrous minutes its path crossing
the US from sea to shining sea for the

00:47:39
first time in nearly

00:47:40
a century it will be watched by millions
Joining me for more on this special events

00:47:46
of a total eclipse is NASA. Yet for

00:47:48
a potion lab and Bassett are great Redfern
this does not happen often does it for

00:47:54
any one particular of the earth as an average
about once every three hundred years

00:48:00
a total solar eclipse will be

00:48:01
a bailable or visible thing that makes its
eclipse on August twenty first in the

00:48:07
United States so unique is two things one
it is Totality is going to last from the

00:48:14
time the moon's shadow comes on two
continents in Oregon when it exits

00:48:21
the state of South Carolina and during that
four hours it's ality It's estimated as

00:48:26
much as over two hundred million Americans
could travel and see totality this is

00:48:32
expect to be the most do Eclipse and all
of history Wow Fascinating So where

00:48:38
exactly will it be visible there are
fourteen states that have what shall be

00:48:43
passing through them and I said it starts
in Oregon only this way on down and your

00:48:49
listeners can go to nasa dot and
click on the links that are up

00:48:56
there about the eclipse and one thing I
want to say well if your listeners are

00:49:02
traveling the United States and they think
they're going to be trying to see the

00:49:05
eclipse they want to
make sure that they buy

00:49:08
a solar eclipse glasses and NASA has got

00:49:12
a vendor list of saved and approved solar
eclipse glasses that's the only way to

00:49:18
safety watch this eclipse site and here is
the glory if your listeners can't get to

00:49:24
the Internet or social media NASA is going
to be broadcasting the live the entire

00:49:31
clips from one It starts when it finishes
and that's going to include views from

00:49:36
the International Space Station it's going
to include views from high altitude

00:49:41
balloon and my favorite There are two B.

00:49:46
Fifty seven talks Trotter ass jet that.
Going to be flying and chasing them moon

00:49:51
shadow special telescope to observe the
sun and to observe the time at Mercury

00:49:58
but what about the people like
say here in Washington D.C.

00:50:01
That won't get

00:50:02
a totally clips will we still get to see
something yes you will totality is only

00:50:07
over fourteen states and it's

00:50:09
a mile wide swath everywhere else in the
United States Canada and Mexico it's

00:50:14
a partial solar eclipse in Washington D.C.

00:50:17
We're roughly going to be at about eighty
five or so percent it depends on where

00:50:22
you are and on that massive DOT website
they have an interactive map that you can

00:50:28
precisely pinpoint where you are and click
on where you live or visiting and bring

00:50:34
up how much of the sun is going to be
eclipsed what time does it start for you when

00:50:39
is the greatest amount of Eclipse and one
is that and how high it is in the sky one

00:50:43
stop shop and frame but he wants to see the
eclipse we won't see in Washington D.C.

00:50:49
a Great darkening it's going to look
a little odd the shadow might be

00:50:56
a little bit different but you really have
to get into the upper ninety percentile

00:51:02
of the sun being eclipse to start seeing
brighter stars come out being able to see

00:51:07
the planets and being able to see where
there's smoke shadow is racing across the

00:51:14
earth's surface to Philip it's really
cool and the last time that we had the

00:51:19
eclipse coming across the entire United
States Laurie was ninety nine years ago

00:51:25
June eighth Wow So this is

00:51:27
a special thing in the last
total solar eclipse on the U.S.

00:51:33
One thousand seventy nine and what makes
is this story and why people are calling

00:51:39
it The Great American eclipse is this is
the first time in American history that

00:51:46
clips is coming onto. American soil
and the totality is only visible and

00:51:53
American for American history All right
thanks so much for the info that's NASA Jet

00:51:59
Propulsion Lab and Bassett are very grand
for and remember if you are nowhere near

00:52:04
seeing the eclipse in person you can see
it at nasa dot gov Wednesday marks forty

00:52:10
years since the legendary king of rock N
roll Elvis Presley died at his home in

00:52:15
Memphis at the age of forty two as he
always David Bird tells us fans around the

00:52:20
world are remembering Presley one of the
high in years of rock music Well this is

00:52:25
my little bed little fellow
to play with. Was devoted.

00:52:32
To. Elvis Presley took the world by
storm in the one nine hundred fifty S.

00:52:39
Shaking and gyrating on stage melting girls
hearts with his charismatic good looks

00:52:44
and his curled upper lip Elvis was born
into poverty in Tupelo Mississippi but rose

00:52:50
to stardom on the heels of songs like
Heartbreak Hotel hound dog Blue Suede Shoes

00:52:56
and Love Me Tender Elvis died of complications
from drug use and heart problems on

00:53:01
August sixteenth one thousand nine hundred
seventy seven cents his death fans have

00:53:05
flocked to his Graceland mansion in Memphis
to pay tribute to their hero this year

00:53:11
fans will be able to pay nearly twenty
nine dollars to join the procession to the

00:53:16
Presley family grave
site they will also get

00:53:19
a glimpse of the newly built entertainment
complex which replaced older exhibits

00:53:24
featuring Elvis his cars costumes
and memorabilia Angela tow is

00:53:30
a tourist from Michigan. You
know he had so many employees.

00:53:38
It was R. And B.

00:53:38
It was. Naturally Molly Kendall and her
family drove hours to see the mansion and

00:53:45
to pay tribute to preciously It's crazy
how the. Busy this place is today forty

00:53:50
years later. I think we. Have four hours
to get through this to read today because

00:53:56
of all the people. Listen. To.

00:54:04
Her. In Manila the Philippines several
Elvis impersonators took to the

00:54:11
stage to pay tribute to the music legend
Eddie Lombardo is the Elvis of Italy we're

00:54:17
not trying to duplicate Elvis was nobody
can be Elvis with anyone else as you know

00:54:22
and we're trying to bring the memory of
Elvis back to people especially what we're

00:54:26
doing Douglas Massud other self described
Elvis of Japan says he hopes to

00:54:30
communicate the spirit of Presley's music
so you say oh I feel you know when I sing

00:54:37
well I'm not all that all of I always I
probably don't sound like him but I feel

00:54:42
this. Song if I feel it you feel
it bam I'm paying is described as

00:54:48
a young Elvis sensation
he says that Presley was

00:54:52
a ground breaker for generations of artists
Elvis kind of like banging down the

00:54:57
door to everyone so conservative or yet
Frank Sinatra that he said they were also

00:55:02
conservative and then there's this guy
shaking his head so. That started everything

00:55:07
but I think for everyone Elvis Presley
ranked fourth in Forbes magazine's twenty

00:55:12
sixteen list of top earning dead celebrities
that's not bad but it paled compared

00:55:18
to another king King of Pop Michael Jackson
who earned eight hundred twenty five

00:55:24
million dollars last year in
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00:56:16
a wonderful day. Next

00:56:46
an editorial reflecting the views of the
United States government it's been nine

00:56:51
years since Russia recognized the Georgian
territories of Abkhazia and South

00:56:55
Ossetia as independent
states after Russia waged

00:56:59
a brief but deadly war with Georgia in
two thousand eight hundred died and more

00:57:04
than one hundred ninety thousand people
were displaced in the five day conflict as

00:57:08
Russian troops advanced into Georgia only

00:57:11
a handful of countries recognize the
so-called independence of the two Georgian

00:57:15
territories which in fact remain firmly
under Russian economic and military control

00:57:20
even to the point of Moscow's integrating
members of its armed forces with those of

00:57:24
South Ossetia the United States and
Georgia consider both Abkhazia and South

00:57:29
Ossetia to be occupied Georgian territory
the Georgian government accuses Russia of

00:57:34
keeping Georgian farmers from their fields
isolating the people in the territories

00:57:39
and further violating Georgia's territorial
integrity by Sarap Tish's the advancing

00:57:44
the administrative boundary line even
deeper into Georgia on the ninth and. Verse

00:57:48
three of the Russia Georgian war August
eighth Russian President Vladimir Putin

00:57:53
visited Abkhazia While there he claimed
that Russia responsibly guarantees the

00:57:58
security and independence of Abkhazia and
expressed confidence that this will be so

00:58:03
in the future as well NATO is acting
spokesperson Dylan white condemned Putin's

00:58:09
visit calling it detrimental to international
efforts to find a peaceful and

00:58:13
a go she added settlement and emphasizing
NATO support for Georgia's sovereignty

00:58:18
and territorial integrity the delegation
of the European Union to Georgia published

00:58:23
a similar denunciation State Department
spokesperson Heather Nauert called the

00:58:27
visit by Putin to the occupied Georgian
territory inappropriate and inconsistent

00:58:32
with the principles underlying the Geneva
International discussions to which Russia

00:58:37
is

00:58:37
a party she also expressed full support for
Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity

00:58:42
within its internationally recognized
borders the United States now it said urges

00:58:47
Russia to withdraw its forces to pre-war
positions per the two thousand and eight

00:58:51
cease fire agreement and reverse is recognition
of the Georgian regions of qazi and

00:58:56
South Ossetia in the meantime as vice
president Mike Pence made clear in his recent

00:59:01
visit to the B.B.C.

00:59:03
The United States will continue to look for
ways that we can strengthen Georgia not

00:59:07
only from the standpoint of its defense
and security but where we can strengthen

00:59:11
Georgia economically creating jobs and
opportunity and prosperity and strengthening

00:59:16
the hand of Georgia so that one day Georgia
can once again celebrate its historic

00:59:21
territorial integrity intact. But it was
an editorial reflecting the views of the

00:59:28
United States government.

00:59:37
Shutdown.

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